On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 02:51:05AM +0000, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 05:49:30PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > > On 1/19/23 19:43, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude > > > 3510 to cause it to see and boot from a Debian netinst image (Debian > > > 11) written to USB flash (8Gbyte Patriot). > > For newer computers with UEFI firmware and Secure Boot, I use the > > "amd64" architecture version of the Debian Installer -- e.g.: > > > > debian-11.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso > > 1) Does this work on an Intel Pentium machine?
Current versions of Debian will NOT work on a Pentium (80586) machine. Support for Pentium processors was dropped in stretch (Debian 9).[1] Support for 80486 processors was dropped in stretch (Debian 6).[2] [1] https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/i386/ch02s01.html.en [2] https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/i386/ch02s01.html.en#idp61966080
